browser1 <browser1@yahoo.com> wrote:
OK here is what I want to do and I cant figure out how to do it. I have several different elements I want to include within an rss feed. So is there any way to put 2 or 3 different rss feeds within one xml feed? The purpose would be for aggregating content online to different sites. I can do this within a php aggregater but then I cant get it out to the other pages on other servers. The idea is if I can do it in one xml page I can then syndicate the single xml feed that includes 2 or three feeds in some combination.
The problem here is not whether it's valid, it's whether current aggregators and readers could read the results. I suspect there's a large number of them that have an implicit assumption that there is one and only one <channel> in any given feed.
On a related issue, I wrote recently about republishing composite feeds that contain items from several feed sources. This might be what you're trying to do. I'm unsure how to properly code this up. It would be simple to just copy <item>s from feed A, B, C into feed D but in the process information is being lost. Adding the RSS 2.0 <source> element would solve this but I wonder if any readers use this.
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